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Amiga 
Technolog 
Petro 
schtehenko 

Can this man 
revitalize.the Amiga 
-rid-wide? ^ 



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This is no April Fool 
Petro Speaksl 



It is ahvays a danger doing the April 
issue. Many people wonder \vhether they 
are being tricked with an April fool joke or 
not. In our April issue of 1994, \vc ran an 
article about a proposed Amiga Pad with 
artificial intelligence, built in programming 
and video capabilities, as well as the 
futuristic marketing techniques to be used 
to introduce it. 

I have ahvays been proud of this 
article. Many of the things we discussed 
ha\'e actually occurred in one way or 
another. In one place we discussed the 
possibility of the voices of deceased actors 
being used to promote the product in voice 
overs. The ink wasn't dr,' on the issue when 
the Beatles announced that long forgotten 
demo tapes by John Lenon ivere going to be 
used with the voices of the three remaining 
Beatles to create new songs. 

Since an April issue is ripe with the 
opportunity to do this type of mischief, it is 
always a danger when you need to present 
an actual, for real, honest-to-goodness 
story — especially about the Amiga and 
Amiga Technologies, 

Petro Tyschtschenko 

1 am vei y proud that we were able to 
get the interview with Mr. Tyschtschenko 
into this issue. Mr. Tyschtschenko had been 
attempting to make tlie (rip to the US for 
over a month, and when he finally had the 
opportunity, he was more than generous 
with his time. 

We spent several hours with Mr. 
Tyschtschenko that Sunday afternoon. He 
was direct and extremely honest with us. I 
may not always agree with every decision 
he has made or he is going to make, but 
Petro does tell you why he has made the 
decision. 

I was upset about the marketing (or 
lack of marketing) that we have seen in 
North America. Petro explained that adding 
any more marketing would be exception- 
ally difficult at this time with the current 
concerns of the head company, ESCOM. 

ESCOM's problems are real and they 
should concern us, but not overly so. 
ESCOM does DM 2.3 billion per year. Their 
losses were DM 125 million, or less than 
5,5"/ii of their sales. Last year they acquired 
Commodore and began Amiga Technolo- 
gies, they purchased a large chain of retail 
stores in Great Britain, and they were faced 
with one of the most difficult years in recent 
history for PC sales. Adding all this 
together, it is no wonder that they showed 
this decline. 



Unfortunately, ESCOM has spoiled 
their im'estors. According to Petro, ESCOM 
has never reported a loss. What is ironic is, 
if all things are equal, ESCOM should be 
v\'orth more this year than last. True they 
lost capital (cash), but did they gain equity. 

By purchasing the British retail chain, 
they needed to spend money to realign the 
stores to ESCOM's business. They probably 
had to clear out older merchandise, clean 
up and redecorate the stores. All of this 
requires cash. 

We are u'ell aware of the capital 
expenditures required to reconstruct the 
Amiga, They had to create two production 
procedures — one for the A1200 and one for 
the A4000 Towers. They were forced to dig 
through old material to see i\'hat they could 
reconstruct of the previous development 
and production work. These and more were 
all front end, dead expenses, Certainly they 
will get their money back, but it will take 
time. 

As far as the PC business taking a 
noise dive, it seems the acquisition of the 
Amiga technology was a good way to 
hedge against the same problem occurring 
again. ESCOM's ownership of the Amiga 
means that they have the exclusive rights to 
a proprietary system. The fact that the 
Amiga remains to be the system that most 
other manufacturers are trying to put on a 
PC is a clear indication that ESCOM's 
ownership is worth a great deal. 

Unfortunately, this means that the 
Amiga is still fairly far down the food chain 
and Petro will need to continue to fight for 
any portion of marketing and development 
funds. This is why 1 believe it is important 
to hear the plans of AT directly from their 
president. 

Other Matters 

With Petro's article, we were forced to 
postpone our Amiga in Biifiticss column for 
this month. This is only temporary, we have 
already received several letters of praise for 
the new feature. 

Take a look at the Hot Web Sites on 
page 48. if vou are not currently in touch 
with the web, vou should be as soon as 
possible. Not all of the growth on the web is 
with the PC. Amiga users have utilized the 
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Thank you for your unfailing, positive, 
optimistic support of the Amiga. T have to 
admit, with the slow, excruciating death of 
Commodore, and the delays waiting for a 
transfer of technology to a new manufac- 
turer, I lost much hope for future continu- 
ance/growth of the Amiga. Your magazine 
was often my only info that not all was 
dead. 

i have subscribed for an additional 
hvo years — mostly as a rt-\vard for the 
beacon you have provided over the past 
two years (a sympathy sale? No...not that!). 
Thanks. 

Regards, 
Ronald H. Martin 

Dear AC, 

The article in your Jenuary 1996 issue 
on page 32 stated that Iomega doesn't make 
any Amiga interfacing hardware. Iomega 
makes a SCSI version of tlie Zip Drive (the 
one that uses 100 megabyte removable 
disk). 1 have an Amiga 1200 with a GVP 
A1230 Turbo Plus Accelerator with the SCSI 
option. When I prepped this drive using 
the GVP SCSI software 1 was able to define 
how many partitions etc. and save the 
information to the drive, but when I tried to 
Amiga format the drive 1 recoi\'ed the error 
requestor Disk Is Write Protected. 

The disks do not have a write protect 
switch on them, the dri\'es do not have one 
either. After reading the documentation 
that came with the drive 1 found out that 
you sot the write protect through softivare, 
of which there was none included for the 
Amiga. At first I thought I \vas out of luck, 
but when I rebooted the machine I had a 
Non-Standard disk icon on workbench. 1 
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from workbench and it worked. The disk 
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The remo\-able disk can be purchased 
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Dear AC, 

While Mr. Martin E. McKeever 

(No\'ember 1995 issue) raised some 
interesting points in his letter, I strongly 
disagree with section E of his letter 
concerning a new version Word Perfect or 
similar products being ported to the Amiga. 
Why should I lino the pockets of software 
developers with my money who left me 
sitting with programs that were not 
upgraded or supported in any form? 

I have numerous pieces of software 
worth several hundred dollars that are 
sitting on my shelf gathering dust because 
certain software developers left the Amiga 
market. Much of my orphaned software 
doesn't work with the new Amiga OS, such 
as 2.1. I would like to know how many 
Amiga users have received letters stating 
that Company X will no longer be support- 
ing the Amiga but you can upgrade to the 
Windows or Mac version when it comes 
out. 

1 have no problem with a company 
developing Windows or Mac versions of 
their Amiga software, such as Soft-Logik, as 
long as they continue to support their 
Amiga software. 1 will not buy software in 
the future from companies which left the 
Amiga market and returned once things 
looked more profitable unless I have to. 
Instead of purchasing a new version of 
Word Perfect (if it were even ported to the 
Amiga), why not hu;' a word processing 
program from Softwood or Digita, since 
both of these companies stuck with the 
Amiga through thick and thin? 

Furthermore, the next generation 
Amiga should deliver work station power 
at an affordable price, just as the Amiga 
1000 did a decade ago. In the December 
issue of 3D Design, Peter Plantec wrote that 
the Amiga was the first serious video-based 
PC. "Its passing (or maybe more appropri- 



ately, its hibernation) has left a legacy of 
quality graphics to be ported to other 
platforms..." 

It's ironic that LightWavo, Calagari, 
Real 3D, Sculpt and Imagine all started their 
lives on an Amiga and not on a Windoivs 
PC or Mac. Many people in the mainstream 
computing world (Windows and Mac) still 
vieiv the Amiga as a toy, yet those same 
people hail LightWave, Sculpt, or Calagari 
as being intuitiw, powerful 3D programs. 
So u'hy should I have to put up with n 
clunky ill conceived program ported from 
Windows? 1 enjoy using programs i\Titten 
on the Amiga by programmers who 
understand the Amiga. 

1 recently read that Amiga Technolo- 
gies announced that the next generation 
Amiga will be powered by the PowerPC 
which is a smart mo\'e. Of course some 
readers will complain that Amiga Technolo- 
gies should have used a HP PA RISC 
processor. If anyone reads BYTE, they will 
have road that Hewlett-Packard is going to 
team up with Intel to create a new 
architecture. This leads to doubts as to 
whether future development of more 
adx'anced \ersion of HP PA RISC proces- 
sors will take place. 

Lastly, Phase 5, the makers of the 
CyberGraphix graphics board and the 
Cyberstorm accelerator card have intro- 
duced the PowerUP program. From u'hat I 
have road, RISC technologv may be closer 
than we think. During the second quarter 
of 19% Phase 5 plans to introduce PowerPC 
based accelerators for the Amiga 1200, 3000, 
4000 and perhaps even for the Amiga 2000. 
They will be using a 680x0 emulator to run 
older software. This is a very smart move 
since it will not split the Amiga community 
into two computing camps, those with RISC 
and those without. 

1 hope Amazing Computing can 
arrange an interview with both Wolf 
Dietrich of Phase 5 and Mr. Tyschtschenko 
of Amiga Technologies. Keep up the good 
work Amazing Computing! 

Sincerely, 

Sidney E. Shuptrine 

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Babylonian Twins 

Legendary Entertainment, a 
wholly owned division of Legendary 
Design Technologies, announced 
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game coming in March to the Amiga. 
[5ahylonian Twins combines Eastern 
atmospheric graphics with a ri\'eting 
sound track. Five huge le\x'ls are 
designed to keep the player busy. The 
le\'els are password coded for easv 
access to higher levels once the earlier 
ones have been completed. The game 
is compatible with all Amigas with at 
least 1MB of CHIP RAM. The SW is 
S59.95. 

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Sofia Ik 

SofTalk restores the attractive 
voice feature to the Amiga, with 
library and device files that provide 
synthetic speech for all Amiga 
machines and operating systems. It can 
be installed in new Amigas that have 
no speech, or as a replacement for the 



original Amiga translator library and 
narrator device on older systems. 

In addition to control of voice 
features such as pitch, speech rate, and 
inflection, SofTalk provides up to four 
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voice channels, and can generate 
speech from any number of separate 
language or \'oice files. Slur, lisp, 
stammer, and sound substitutions can 
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provided to a caller upon the change of 
e\'ery spoken word, syllable, or 
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messages. 

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or with a customized voice. Price for 
all this is $7.50 which includes a non- 
copy protected disk and installation 
manual. 

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PhonMaker 

Also from Parth Galen is 
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narrator de\'ice recei\'es calls from 
application programs that submit 
strings of phoneme "codons". These 
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TransMaker i 

Design your own text-to-soimd 
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keyboard with TransMaker. The 
Amiga translator library receives calls 
from application programs that submit 
text to a translation function, and in 



turn receive a string of phimeme 
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sent to the narrator device and 
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Amiga Library Services 
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Amiga AtM^ i,^a k\Q. 



Amiga Atlanta Inc. is one of the 
oldest Amiga users group in North 
America. To celebrate their 10th 
anniversary, the organization held a 
banquet this past January. Lamar 
Morgan, AAi President, stated, "I 
think it is safe to say the banquet 
surprised everyone. V\'hen our club 
first started to work on the banquet, 
only 20 people signed up to attend. 
The night of the banquet there was 
an overflow crowd and the hotel 
served more than 130 meals!" 

The celebration attracted 
Amiga notables as well as politi- 
cians, television celebrities, and 
friends of the Amiga. Speakers and 
guests included distinguished 
Amiga legends such as RJ Mical 
and Dale Luck, from the original 
Amiga team; Dave Haynie, 
Commodore engineer on the 
Amiga 3000; Fred Fish, Jason 
Compton, of Amiga Report; as well 
as Tim Jenison of NewTek. Susan 
Rook of CNN's "TalkBack Live" 
and Stewart Cheifet of "Computer 
Chronicles" served as co-hosts for 
the event. Motorola was also 
represented at the event. 

In honor of their 10th year 
anniversary, AAi was presented 
with a proclamation from Georgian 
Governor Zell Miller's office which 
proclaimed January 22, 1996 as 
"Amiga Computer Day in Geor- 
gia." Speeches were also given by Ron 
Heimbgner, one of the founding 



members of AAi plus former AAi 
presidents Joe Torre, John Lotshaw, 
and Aaron Ruscetta. For anyone 
interested, the AAi banquet was 
recorded on video tape and will be 
available through the club — what a 
great way to preserve a piece of Amiga 
history. 

Amiga Atlanta, Inc. is a not for 
profit user group for all users of 



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the Amiga computer family. Anyone 
may join whether or not they own an 
Amiga. AAi has a monthly newslet- 
ter. The AAi Workbench. Members 
enjoy discount prices for Public 
Domain software, full access to the 
AAi Bulletin Board System, monthly 
general meetings, as well as monthly 
meetings of Special Interest Groups 
(SIGs). SIGs include desktop 

publishing, 3-D animation, music 
and MIDI, video production, 
teclinical problems and projects, 
and new users. 

To discover more about the 
Amiga Atlanta Inc. group (and 
, even read their newsletter), visit 
I their Web site at http:// 
www.mindspring.com/ 
-amigaatl . The webmaster for 
this site is AAi president, Lamar 
Morgan, and the site is a show- 
case of what can be done for an 
organization on a web site. Our 
thanks to Lamar Morgan for 
forwarding this bit of history to 
us and a special salute to Amiga 
Atlanta Inc. and its members 
through out these last ten years. 

Amiga Atlanta, Inc. 

P.O. Box 49103 

Atlonta, GA 30359- U 03 USA 

Contact: 
Lamaf Morgan, AAI President 

P.O. Box 49103 
Atlanta, GA 30359-1 103 USA 
Voice: <404) 365-0670 
E-mail: lamar@mlndsprlng.com 



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Left (left to rigtil): Dave Haynie, of the 
Amiga 3000 team, RJ Mica! of the 
original Amiga team, Fred Fisti of the 
Amiga Public Domain Library, and 
Jason Compton of Amiga Report. 





Right (left to right): Jeff fvlcCord, 
representing the office of Governor 
Zell Miller, Stewart Cheifet, of 
"Computer Chronicles," Susan Rook, 
of CNN's "TalkBack Live," and Lamar 
Morgan, President of AAi. 





Right (left to right): Ron 
Heimblgner, founding member of 
AAi; Joe Torre, past AAi president 
and Dale Luck from the original 
Amiga engineering team. 



April 1996 17 




Creciting Artwork with ImageFX 



R. Shamms Mortier 



Use ImageFX to alter your photographic images 

so they appear as if they were created by the 

hand of a master artist and not the camera. 



When someone introduces 
themselves as a "computer artist", it 
can mean one of two things. They may 
work in 2D or 3D, though many times 
it means both. It is important to realize 
that the distinction is not between 
being a DTV (Desktop Video) or a DTP 
(Desktop Publishing) artist. 

It used to be true that DTP artists 
worked strictly in 2D, preparing 
material for the printed page. Though 
that is still true in many cases, it is the 
so-called "printed page" that has gone 
through a serious evolution. Now, it is 
just as likely that DTP persons will 
find tliemselves creating printed pages 



for the internet, a realm that incorpo- 
rates not only 2D and 3D, but anima- 
tion and sound as well. 

DTV artists, associated with the 
video realm, are most often catego- 
rized in an opposite fashion, being 
thought of as permanent residents of 
the worlds of 3D art and animation. 
But every DTV professional knows 
that in many cases, an eye and a hand 
for creating 2D graphics is equally 
important as having a mastery of 3D 
imagery. Charts, graphs, background 
art for credits and titling, video slide 
shows for academia and industry, 
animation backdrops, all of these and 



more examples of 2D work can be a 
substantial part of the DTV artist and 
animator's menu. 

Dimensional Differences 

As far as 2D computer graphics is 
concerned, there are some noteworthy 
differences related to DTP \'ersus DTV 
environments, though not so much in 
the creative tools. Specifically, screen 
resolutions tend to be much higher, 
and screen sizes larger, when address- 
ing DTP output (film for glossy 
magazines, large format printed 
output), though it is also true that 
computer art produced for major TV 



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Left (Opposite Page): Here are the 
four original Legendary 
Tectinoiogies ProPix images we are 
worlting witt\. Notice that eacti is 
fairly controsty. 

Riglit: After iieigtitening tiie 
Gamma on eacti image to 60, a 
Sobel Edge Detection was applied. 
Ttiis produces very organic looking 
pen and pencil-lilce grapliics. 
Edges are ttiicker wtiere contrast is 
tiigtiest. 




productions and movies can also take 
advantage of film mediums that 
require higher output than that 
required by commercial broadcast TV 
or other DTV uses. 

Many Amiga artists are used to 
lower resolutions, like the Toaster's 
752 X 480 output. If you want to get a 
professional printout of your work, 
however, the stakes have to be raised. 
Normally, the DPI (Dots Per Inch) ratio 
of a video screen equates with about 72 
DPI. If you have a laser printer, you 
are already working at 300 to 600 DPI 
or higher. That means that a standard 
video screen graphic that takes up the 
whole display surface of your monitor 
comes out looking like a postage 
stamp when printed, if the DPI 
numbers have not adjusted and the art 
is printed for density rather than size. 



A 72 DPI visual measuring 5x5 inches 
will only be 1.2 x 1.2 inches at 300 DPI 
and 0.15 x 0.15 inches at 2400 DPI. 

A lot of printing software make 
these adjustments on the fly, so you 
never have to worry about it, but that 
is not the case when you do profes- 
sional DTP work. As an example, I 
recently created a piece of cover art for 
a music CD. On screen, the artwork 
was about three times the size of the 
CD space with a 300 DPI resolution. 
When printed in actual size, it looked 
like a photo. 

Natural Media 

If you are targeting your com- 
puter graphics to print output (paper 
mediums), you will at some time want 
to craft your images so that they take 
on the appearance of what the trade 



calls "natural media", oils, watercol- 
ors, pencil, ink. No matter that the 
original art is a photograph or a 
drawing, it is often necessary to add 
warmth to artv\?ork by making it 
appear to be hand, not machine, 
crafted. Warm artwork gives a 
message of humanity, caring, heart 
\'ersus head, aknost without e\'en 
considering the image. We can truly 
say that as far as visual art is con- 
cerned, the medium is the message, or 
at least a good part of it. 

There are, of course, times when 
you will require sharp razor edged 
graphics. A technical drawing, for 
instance, will not be appreciated if it 
looks like an oil painting or a dreamy 
watercolor. Numeric call-outs on a 
blueprint ha\'e no business appearing 
in '60's style rainbow graphics. When 




Notice the difference between applying the Oil Painting effect versus applying a high (6 out of a possible 8) Dispersion 
underpalnting first. Then a Cotton paper texture was applied with a depth of 150. Finally the Oil Painting brush was set to 7 and 
applied. The rougher you make the graphic before Oil Painting, the more realistic the painterly look. 



April 1996 



19 




On the left, solafization was applied before a Blur and, on the right, we used Posterizolion, false Color (standard palefte) and Dispersion. 



3'ou do want to alter the feel of an 
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possibilities. Enter, ImageFX from 
Nova Design. 

ImageFX Artistic Options 

Ha\'ing already covered 
ImageFX's effects options in the 
February issue oiAimziitg Computing, 
we will take a look at its "painterlv" 
effects this time around. As a pencil 
and pen-and-ink artist for many years, 
I sometimes resent the ease with which 
great software di>os what it took me so 
long to learn. But I'm a bit schizo- 
phrenic about it as well, plaving with 
effects tools until v\-n)' past m)' 
bedtime, and drooling with glistening 
eyes at the results. Like many of you, I 



still love to create non-computer art, 
but I am also finding that my Amiga 
allows me to explore dimensions that 
go far beyond my initial training, 
opening both my eyes and my mind. 

Our specific aim in this article is to 
show you how to use ImageFX to alter 
photographic images so that they 
appear as if they were created by the 
hand and not the camera. In many 
cases, this is somewhat of a trade-off 
between the appearance of the graphic 
and the amount of information it 
contains. 

What must be understood is what 
1 have termed "painterly" images. 
Painterly images appear as if they 
were paintings or dra^vings, the 
information is transferred to the 
medium. Recognizable elements in the 



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A rather interesting effect, almost like graffili. A Stone texture was applied to the 
Image, then a Sobel edge detection. This would work well with text too. 



graphic, specifically small details, are 
lost. What is gained, however, is a 
more immediate emotional content, an 
opening of the visual to allow for more 
interpretation by the viewer. In short, 
more visual interest. In psychology, we 
call this a perceptual shift to the right 
brain, away from the demanded 
logical alternatives resident in left- 
brained perception. 

A good preparatory step is to 
choose your original graphics wisely. 
Never use pictures full of nothing but 
small details alone. Look for images 
that dominate the vlewplane. Organic 
figures work the best {human faces, 
animals, large foreground faui\a), 
though discernible shapes of any kind 
can also produce appealing results. 
Also make sure your images are 
contrasty, light against dark or vice 
versa. For our explorations in this 
article, we will choose some graphics 
from the ProPics CD of images 
produced by Legendary Technologies. 
This is a wonderful CD-ROM packed 
with loads of images in Toaster 
FrameStore, IFF, BMP, TEFF and JPEG 
formats. 

Underpalnting 

It is also important to become 
familiar with the term 
"underpalnting", especially its new 
definition in the electronic arts. 
Traditionally, underpalnting devel- 
oped as a technique used by the master 
of oil painting, It describes the ability 
to use large swashes of color on a 
canvas before you apply the colors of 



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the final images. You would think that 
because underpainted areas are 
covered by the final palette that 
underpainting is just a waste of time, 
but the masters knew better. Subtle 
changes in light and color take effect 
with underpainting that have a great 
effect on the final colors in the image. 
As a digital use of underpainting, 
we realize that electronic canvases are 
different, and that printed output is 
also very different in color and light 
from your computer screen. For a 
computer artist, underpainting may 
not be associated with color alone, but 
with the application of various 
techniques upon an image before a 
final effect is applied. Like traditional 
painting, digital underpainting has 
lasting and radical effects on the final 
image, and requires study to master or 
even to begin to understand. With our 
ImageFX explorations in creating art 
effects, we will explore some 
tmderpainting processes and display 
the results. 

ImageFX 2.x required tools 

There are so many great effects 
tools in ImageFX that the hardest part 
is to limit their use, choosing only 
those at the start that help you get a 
creative grasp on what you are doing. 
This article is in no way intended to be 
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tion and working through the tutorials. 
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least that experience. 

We are going to incorporate the 
following ImageFX tools, so you might 
want to locate them beforehand: the 
selection options, negative, edge 
detection, solarize, posterize, false 
color, antique, balance, oil paint, 
disperse, roughen, paint effects and 
apply texture. If you are interested in 
computer graphics but you are not an 
ImageFX user yet, the graphics that 
accompany this article should still be 
of interest. 

The great thing about exploring 
image manipulations in ImageFX is 
that you have multiple undos at your 
conunand, making discovery and risk 



fairly painless. Balance, negative, 
disperse, and roughen will be consid- 
ered as underpainting tools for this 
journey, meaning that we ^vill not use 
them as final rendering steps. 

One last preparatory remark, do 
this exploration on an AGA Amiga or 
one that has 24-bit graphics capability 
if at all possible, since much of the 
beauty of what can be accomplished 
with these tools and methods will be 
lost on anything less. 



(like the features of a face), move the 
contrast down. If you desire a more 
siUiouetted image, move the contrast 
up. 

Moving up the Gamma setting 
beforehand also enhances edge 
detection detail, while moving up the 
brightness alone washes out detail. 

Since certain edge detection 
algorithnis render as grayscale images 
with results based only on the iuma 
signal (brightness), it sometimes helps 



The great thing about exploring image 

manipulations in imageFX is that you have 

muitipie undos at your command, making 

discovery and risk fairlv painless. 



In General 

Some things that 1 hti\'e discov- 
ered over the years, in addition to my 
earlier comments about using con- 
trasty pictures, might also be of benefit 
to your experiments. Pushing the 
contrast of an image to the max 
increases the density of the outlines in 
all of the edge detection operations. 
Conversely, moving the contrast down 
to the minimum first, gives edge 
detection renderings more detail and 
less blatant outlining. 

When you have an image with 
features that you want to emphasize 



beforehand to turn off all but one color 
gun (leave the R, G, or B on that has 
the best contrasted image). This is 
possible in the ImageFX balance 
window. 

Posterizing an imago before 
applying edge detection enhances all 
of the detail because intermediate 
grays are dropped out. This might be a 
good choice for a harder edged effect, 
like a technical illustration (use a fairly 
low posterization setting). 

Turning up the contrast (which I 
call "underpainting with contrast") 
before using an oil painting effect. 




Snake Skin texture, Blur, and Oil Paint. The texture translates into what appear to 
be brush strokes, emphasizing the believability that this Is truly an oil painting. 



Ai'R/i. 1996 



21 





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On the left is a Cubist Painting Effect (settjng=500 strokes) and randomized Color, followed by Oil Paint with a brush size of 3. 
This is very much like a Zen wotercolor. In the middle, the same cubist Painting Effect with negative on, followed by a ramping 
edge detection. The result is much like Oriental embroidered silk. Plaster Texture (Shading on), Btur, a Dispersion of 8, followed 
lastly by Oil Painting with a brush size of 4. Finally, Antiquing was applied over everything, adding an ethereal yellowish cast 
to the painting. 



gives you a graphic thai loolcs lilce a 
paint-by-the-numbers piece. Using a 
high dispersion routine setting bel:'ore 
oil painting produces a vvatercolor 
look. This can be most effect:ive with 
the human face as the target. 

Underpainting with a texture 
before applying the oil painting effect 
can result in some beautiful abstracted 
electronic paintings. Unless you 



Solarize- This is like adding a 
super blast of sunlight, and works best 
when used as an underpainting 
technique before a Sobcl operation. 

Posterize- Woodstock anyone? 
This operator can cither produce 60's 
like art right from the box, or it can be 
used to underpaint another painterly 
effect. It is important to select a 
graphic with lots of color all over or 



Underpainting with a texture 

before applying the oil painting 

effect can result In some beautiful 

abstracted electronic paintings. 



absolutely require it, 1 would caution 
against using textures right out of the 
bottle. Either blur the image afterward 
or use a painting effect. I find vanilla 
textures alone a bit too harsh and 
"computery" looking. 

The Looks 

Negative- This operator does 
what it says, reversing all of the hue 
and luminance values in an image. It is 
best used as a special underpainting 
technique, and works best on segments 
of an. image rather than on the whole 
graphic. It has no effect on edge 
detection, since edges remain edges. 

Edge Detection- Although IPX 
offers three separate edge detection 
methods, the most useful one to our 
present explorations is the Sobel 
routine. This produces exquisite pencil 
and pen-like graphics from photos. 



you will be dissatisfied with the 
results. 

False Color- ! usually use the "use 
palette" option here. The result is a 
very modern looking graphic, part 
edge detected and part colorized. This 
is a good tool out of the box, though 
using a blur over it decreases the 
computer look. 

Antique- You can use this as is on 
photos to produce aged graphics. Used 
with other routines, usually last, it also 
gives a warmer character to the 
graphics. 

Oil Paint- This option smears out 
edges and detail and at the same time 
differentiates color blocks. Used with 
other routines first, some startling 
electronic paintings can be produced. 

Disperse- This operator also 
addresses edges, but instead of merely 
following them like edge detection 



does, it smears edges. This can add a 
lot to later painting effects. 

Roughen- This is a lot like 
dispersion, but instead of effecting 
edges alone, it roughens the whole 
graphic, introducing pixelated noise 
into the mix. Under the right circum- 
stances, this can create a look compa- 
rable to what an artist calls "stippling", 
especially when a Sobel routine is 
applied over it. 

Apply Texture- This applies a 
texture seemingly "behind" the 
artwork. The texture list is very 
extensive. 

Paint Effects- These are similar to 
textures, except that they seem to rest 
on rather than behind the graphic. The 
menu is one of ImageFX's most 
complex, offering thousands of 
possible ways to apply these effects. 

Unlike most other Amiga graphics 
output tools, ImageFX saves out 
images at 300 DPI. Hope you enjoyed 
this ImageFX excursion. The next AC 
ImageFX tutorial will focus upon rub- 
thru variations. Enjoy! See you in 
ROMulan space. 

ImageFX 

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29.95 


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32.95 


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39.95 


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15.95 


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13.95 


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18.95 


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19.00 


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23.95 


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17.00 


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12.95 


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7.00 


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22.95 


Moving Gives Me a Stomach Ache 


9.00 


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18.00 


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229-00 


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8.00 


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10,00 


BCInel (Specify 1 or 2) 


12.95 


Mullimedla Mega Bundle 


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BCInel 3 


19.95 


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36.95 


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Music WOOs & Sound Samples 


14-95 


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24.00 


NelNBWsOllline Volume 1 


16.95 


C64 Sensations 


26.95 


Network CD by Weird Science 


22,95 


CD Boot 


39.95 


Network CD 2 by Weird Science 


22,95 


CD Caddy 


6.00 


Network Cable C032 to Amiga 


30,00 


CDPD1 


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15.00 


CD PD 2. 3. 4 (Specify) 


24-00 


Nothing but GIFs 


18,95 


CDWriie 


42.95 


Nothing bul Telris 


14,95 


Ctiaos Enoine CD-32 


6.00 


Defamed 6 


39.95 


Cinderella: The Original Fairy Tale 


9.00 


Online Library 


26.00 


Classic Board Games 


10.00 


Our Solar System 


18.00 


Clip Art & Fonts 


12-00 


Paperbag Princess 


10.00 


Ctipan Warehouse 1. 2 (Specily) 


IB.OO 


Personal Suite Irom Cloanlo 


99.95 


Cookbook Heaven 2 


19.00 


PhotoCD Manager CD-32 


33.95 


OataMij 


16,00 


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10.00 


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27,00 


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24.95 


Demo CD l.2(Specily) 


24,00 


Psycho Killer 


B-OO 


Desktop Video 


26,95 


SFX Volume 1,2 (Specify] 


29.00 


EMC-Phase 1.2, 3 (Speedy) 


34.95 


Sci Fi Sensation 


28.95 


Emilalors Unlimited 


26.95 


Software 2000 


36.95 


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Sounds Ternfic 


25.00 


Epic Collection 


26.95 


Space & Astronomy 


21.00 


Eric Schwam CD-Archive 


21.95 


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27.95 


EuroSceoe 


12.95 


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6.00 


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19-95 


Strip Poker 


14.00 


Eyes of the Eagle 


9,00 


Surface Pro 5 Pro Textures Combe 


59,00 


F1 Licenseware 


39.95 


Super Fonts 


19.00 


Fantaseas 


26.95 


Syndesis 3D ROM v1 . y2 (Specify) 


89.00 


FlyerCOM 


249,00 


Tales ol Peter Rabbit 


10.00 


FMVCD 


29.95 


Ten on Ten (10 CDs) 


59.00 


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24.95 


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27.95 


Fractal Pro Image Library 


19.95 


TeKlure Heaven 


7,50 


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25.00 


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19.00 


Business. Politics & Media 


15,00 


Fun Schoo! 3 - Agas 5 and under 


10.00 


Science & Innovabons 


15,00 


Gamer's Delight 


34.00 


Tovm With No Name 


5.00 


Gamer's Delight 2 


27.95 


Turbo Dale 2.1 CD 


14,95 


Garden Fax: Fruits, Vegs, Herbs 


9.00 


Video Gem 


85.00 


Garden Plints 


9.00 


Visions 


24.95 


Indoor Plants 


9.00 


Visual FX 1.2 ISpecify) 


99.00 


Gardening Handbook 


16,00 


Weird Science Clip Art 


14.00 


Gateway 


1B.95 


Weird Science Fonts 


14.00 


GIF Galaity 


26.00 


Weird Science Animations 


25.00 


GIF Gallery Vol t 


27.00 


Weird Science Demo Mania 1 


20.00 


GIFs Galore 


12.00 


Weird Science UPO Gold 


39-95 


GIF Sensation 


24.95 


Women In Motion 


9.00 


Global Amiga Experience 


29.95 


Workbench Add On 


32.00 


Gold Fish 1,2. 31Specilyl 


19,95 


World Info 


45.95 


Graphics Plus 


18.00 


World ol Clipart 


19,00 


Groller's Encyclopedia 2 


24.95 


Worit) ol GIF 


22.00 


Guiness Book ol World Records 


9-95 


Wrath ol the Dei^on 


5.00 


Gutenberg Project 


19.00 


XiPaim3.2 


42.95 



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14,00 


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26,95 


American Girls (Spec 1 Or 2) 


29,00 


Ameieur Models 1.2, 3,4 (Spec 


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18,00 


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14,00 


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35,00 


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26.00 


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14,00 


Climax XXX 


14,00 


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22,00 


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23-00 


Elite USA Models 1,2 (Spec) 


23,00 


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1400 


Eruption XXX 


14,00 


Exotic Extasy XXX 


14.00 


Extreme Deliglit XXX 


26.00 


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14.00 


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14.00 


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22.00 


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26,00 


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22.00 


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1200 


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14.00 


Red Hot XXX 


14.00 


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1400 


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26.00 


Sexual Fantasies XXX 


12.00 


Sexy Sensations 


26-95 


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26.00 


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12.00 


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14.00 


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140O 


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41.95 


Tight Panties XXX 


14-00 


Top Heavy XXX 


14.00 


Tropii:al Heat XXX 


14.00 


Underground Adult Ref, Library 


26,00 


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White Underware XXX 


14,00 


Wild Wendy XXX 


14,00 


Your Privacy Assured 


34,00 



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296,00 


MTeoATSOONoHD Jl 49.95 


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139.95 


MTec AT 500 w/40Mb HD 229.95 


MTec 680201 Turbo A500 OK 


99.95 


MTeo AT 500 130Mb HD 269.95 


MTec T1 230 42MjCPUtFPU 


244,95 


MTec AT 500 213Mb HO 299,95 


1Mb RAM for T1230 or 680201 


49.95 


MTec AT 500 540Mb HD 369.95 


4Mb RAM lor T1230 or 680201 


99.95 


MTecAT5001.08GigHD 49995 


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194.95 



Amiga Books 

ARexx: Your Amiga's Turbo $29.00 

Al 200 & CD-ROW Need to Know 29.95 

Amiga Shoppers PD Directory 26.00 

Internet. Modems & Comms 29.95 

A1200 Insiders Guide 25.95 

A1200 Insiders Guide. Nexl Steps 25.95 

Amiga Disk Drives Insiders Guide 25,95 

A to Z Workbench Insiders Guide 25,95 

Assembler Insiders Guide 25.95 

Mastering Amiga Program Secrels 31.95 
Maslering AmigaDDS3Tit1orialvl31.95 

Mastering AmlgaDOS 3 Bel. v2 31.95 

Mastering AmigaDDS Scripts 29.95 

Wastering Amiga C 29.95 

Mastering Amiga Beginners 29.95 

Mastering Amiga System 34.95 

Mastering Amiga ARexx 31 .95 

Mastering AmlgaDOS 2 v2 29.95 

Maslering Amiga AMOS 3 1 .95 

Maslering Amiga Primers 29.95 

Ultimate AMOS 28.95 

Amiga User In'face & Style Guide 24.00 

ROM Kernel: Devices 3rcl Edition 27.00 
ROM Kernel: Inc, & A'docs 3rd Ed. 36,00 

Exploring Lightwave 30 52,99 

Complete Post-Prod. w/B. Wilson 24,95 

ToUII Amiga AmlgaDOS 29,95 

Tolall Amiga Workbench 23.95 

Toul! Amiga Assembler 30.95 

FX Kit for Lightwave 33.95 



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Address It! 1,5 


J26.95 


Ami- Back Plus Tools 


79.95 


Ami- Back 2 


49.95 


AmigaVision Clips vl SFX 


6.95 


AmigaVision Professional 


49.95 


Anim Workshop 2 


89.95 


Artworks Clip Art library 


22.95 


Batch Factory 


49,00 


aiill Basic 2.1 


69.00 


BrIlllincgZ.a 


69.00 


Caligari 24 


139,00 


Checks & Balances 


3B.00 


Cinema 40 


239,00 


City Builder 


67.95 


Composite Studio Pro 


164.95 


Control Tower 


139,95 


Cross DOS v6 


46.95 


Cross MAC 


7900 


Data Tax 1995 


49,95 


Data Tax Forms CD 


26.00 


Decision Maker 


199 00 


Deluxe Paint 5 


124 95 


Desktop Magic 


28 95 


Desktop Magic Sound/Art Pack 


14 95 


Directory Opus 5 


79.00 


DlrWork2 


59,00 


Disk Expander 


37 05 


Disk Magic 


54,95 


Distant Suns 5,0 


57,95 


DJ Helper 2 


64 95 


Easy Ledgers 2 


149,95 


EnPrint 2 Epson Stylus Color Driver 


34.95 


Family Connections 


34.00 


Fiber Factory 


79-95 


Final Calc 


144.95 


Final Data Release 3 


59.00 


Final Writer Rel 4 


119.95 


Fractal Pro 6.10 w/FPILvl CO 


65 00 


GameSmdh Development System 


99.95 


Gigamem 3-x 


58,95 


Help Me & A;ni Gel on Internet VIseo 34 ,95 


HiSoft Basic 2 


99,95 


Home Fronl 


34,95 


Humanoid (Specity LWor Imagine) 


159 00 


lm>inF/X2.1a 


239.95 


Imagine 3.0 


239 00 


ImageMaster R/T 


69.00 


Impact! lor Lightwave 


219,95 


InloNeius 2 w/DaiaNexus 


59.95 


Interior Construction 


69-00 


lnleriorDe5ign2, or3 (Specily) 


3B.D0 


IntOS for AMOS 


21.95 


Invoice 111.2 


34.95 


Lightwave 4.0 Unbundled 


769.00 


Link It! 


49.95 


Magic Lantern v2 


94,00 


Master ISO Irom ASIMware 


3B9.95 


Mavis Beacon Tear:hes Typiing 2 


24.95 


MaxDOS 2.5 


79.90 


Motion Master LW (Spec v1 or v2) 


114.95 


Music X 2.0 


69.95 


OdaMED Pro v6 


59.95 


OntheBallvl.S 


35 00 


Pagesiream 2.2 SE 


49.95 


Path Finder 


99.00 


PeggBr2.0 


39.95 


PC-Task v3.1 


129.95 


Photogenics 


94.95 


Pixel 30 Pro 2.0 


8995 


Power Macros/Lightwave 


89,95 


Pro Vector 3 


179,00 


Pro Textures Combo 


39,95 


Radar 


279,95 


Road Signs 


44.95 


SAS/C6 51 


159,95 


Scape Maker 4.0 


39.95 


Scenery Animator 4 


65.00 


Snap Maps: Building Materials 


124.95 


Snap Maps: Relds S foliage 


124.95 


Sparks 


119.95 


Squirrel Zip Tools 


24.95 


Sludio Printer 2 v2.l 


94.95 


SuperHP-DJC3orHP-LJ4(Spec) 


37.95 


Surface Pro 


59.00 


Toaster 4.0 Upgrade 


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Top Form 


34-95 


Turbo Calc 3.5 


64,95 


TVText Pro 


19.95 


Twist 2 Relational Database 


119,95 


Upper Disk Tools 


25.95 


Video Tape Backup 


89.95 


Vista Pro 3.05 


54.95 


Wave Maker 2,0 


189-00 


Wipe Studio 


164.95 


World ConstrucBon Sel 


169.00 



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Aladdin AGA S32.95 

Alien Breed 3D AGA/CD-32 (Specily) 39.95 

Blitz Bombers ECS/AGA/CD-32 (Spec) 37.95 

Breathless AGA 42.95 

Carmen San Oiego ■ WorttI 7.00 

Civilization AGA 24.95 

Coala ■ lor all aeceleraled Amtgas 37,95 

Colonization 36.00 

The Clue (CD-32) 22.95 

Delender of the Crown 2 CD-32 16.95 

Dungeon Master 2 AGA 42.95 

Exile AGA/CD-32|SpBCity| 37.95 

Exile ECS 24,95 

Extreme Racing AGA/CD-32 (Specify) 37.95 

Fears AGA/CO-32 (Specily) 37.95 

Gfoom AGA/CD-32 (Specity) 36.95 

Gloom Deluxe Amiga 39.95 

Gloom Data Disk AGA 17.95 

Lucas Arts Classic Cdllections ECS 36.95 
Microlight WarriorsAGA/CD-3Z (Spec) 37.95 

Odyssey Amiga 34.95 

Odyssey CD-32 37.95 

Overlord ECS/AGA 39,95 

Pinhall Illusions AGA/CD-32 (Spec) 37,95 

Pinball Mania AGA 37.95 

Sensible Woridol Soccer 95/96 34.95 

Shadow Fighter ECS/AGA (Specity) 1 9.95 

Stiadow Fighter CD-32 39.95 

Sim City 2000 AGA 29.95 

Spens Legacy AGA/CD-32 (Specily) 37.95 

Super Skidmarks ECS/CD-32 (Spec) 34.95 

Super Skidmarks Data Disk AGA 1995 

Super Stardust AGA'CD-32 (Spec) 34.95 

Theme Park ECS/AGA (Specify) 44.95 

Vlro Cops ECS/AGA (Specify) 29,95 

Virtual Karting AGA 26.95 

World of Goll ECS. AGA 37,95 

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Cinema 4D: tutorial #1 



Cinema 4D 
Object Sculpting Techniques 



by R. Sliauiius Mortier 



The Amiga boasts some of the 
most serious 3D soft\A'are of any 
system available, and it can compete 
effectively with any other platform. 
The only difference is speed. That is 
Vk'hy so many Amigaris dizzy by the 
lack of Amigas have been opting to 



purchase Pentium or Alpha machines, 
not so much for the available software 
as for the dedicated rendering power. 

No serious animation studio is 
without at least one Amiga. True, it 
may be hidden away so that the client 
only gets a view of the spanking new 




SGI sitting center stage, but the Amiga 
is still there, waiting, breathing the hot 
winds of creativity when the lights are 
low and the designer is alone with her 
thoughts. 

We all have our favorite Amiga 
3D software, and for those of you 
having suffered all these years tlirough 
my sermons and tutorials, you know 
all about my choices. My choices in 3D 
software aside for the moment, I also 
recognize that you deserve to know 
about the full range of available 
options. Howe\'er, "Houston, we have 
a problem." 

By myself, I am incapable of 
providing that, as no single Amazing 
author can cover every aspect of the 
3D field alone. Each has her/his own 
target area of mastery, and the writing 
skills to lead you, the thirsty artist and 
animator, to water. That is why it is 
important that those of you who have 
mastered specific packages get up the 
courage and take the time to contribute 
those ideas to other Amazing Cainpui- 
ing readers from time to time. In that 
way, we'll all benefit from each others 
discoveries. 

Speaking about discoveries, I have 
discovered that Cinema 4D from 
HiSoft has art and animation options 
not found in competing Amiga 
packages that I am aware of (and like 
the jaded world traveller, "I've seen 
and explored 'em all" in the last ten 
years). Some of you may have seen my 
Cinema 4D review in the February 
issue of Amazing Computing, where an 
over\'iew of C4D's features was 
presented. 



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Figure 2 Cleft). Deform and Crumple are 
two of C4D's effects that can be 
applied to 3D objects. Here we see ttie 
Cinema 4D "Figure" object, and to its 
right ore the applied "deform: and 
"crumple". Ttie interactive menus allow 
for the changing of Itie respective 
settings. 



I have 

dteeovered that 

Cinema 4D from 

HiSoft has art 

an4 animcition 

options not 

found in 

oompeting^ 

Amiga 



Cinema 4D is a very ricl:\ pro- 
gram, however, and deserves more 
specific looks at some of its crcati\'e 
tools. It has more market share 
overseas at this point than here, but 
then again it hasn't been openly 
available here except for fairly 
recently. 

What I would like to do is to offer 
you a handful of tutorials that explore 
some of C4D's tools in greater detail. 
One, because that will allow you to 
decide if what Cinema 4D does is 
what you might be looking for, and 
two, because you should be aware of 
what other Amiga packages are 
capable of, even if you decide that 
they are not your cup of virtual tea. In 
this first Cmema 4D tutorial, we will 
be taking a close look at some of the 
available object sculpting and creation 
options, how they work, and the 
unique objects that they can provide. 




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27 




Figure 4 (above). Boolean operators perform drilling magic in Cinema 4D. When 
selected, a pop up menu allows you to ctioose Ihe drill and thie target object. Ttien 
it is merely a matter of waiting a few seconds while the operation is completed. 




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Cinema 4D Primitives 

At this juncture in the develop- 
ment of 3D/4D software, most every 
package has a selection of primitives, 
basic objects, that can be accessed. 
Many times you can use primitives 
unchanged, stacicing them like so 
many blocks to build more complex 
objects. Actually, we should be calling 
these primitives "internal primitives", 
because in a sense, any pre-mnde 
object you load can be thought of as a 
primitive. It can always be used 
unaltered as part of a larger construct. 

Cinema 4D has a rich collection of 
internal 3D object primitives. These 
include; cone, cube, cylinder, pyramid, 
sphere, tetrahedron, torus. These are 
listed under Object/Primitives menu, 
along with some 2D and non-object 
primitives (which 1 would prefer to be 
placed in another non-3D object list). 

Also listed in the Object/ Special 
Object menu are two choices that I 
would group with the 3D primitives 
list. Figure and Fractal. Figure is an 
articulated humanoid form, and 
Fractal is an automatic 3D terrain 
generator. See Figure 1 for a visual 
display of these 3D primitives. 

Figure 5 (left). All of these objects were 
built using a primitive cylinder as a base 
and applying specific Deform 
parameters on the planes of targeted 
ctiange: A- Sphere Plane, B- Cylinder 
Plane, C- XY Radial Plane, D- Sphere 
Plane with Square Root functions. 



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Figure 6 (right). The subject we have 
chosen is a primitive Cinema 4D Torus. 
A- Radial with an X Move of 50, B- 
Radial with an X Move of 100, C- Axial 
with XYZ Move set to 10, 10, 10. 1 am 
amazed that of these objects lool< like 
yummy frosted pastry. 



As a general rule, when you want 
to bring up data menus for transforma- 
tion operations in Cinema 4D, you 
hold down the shift key while making 
your choice. There are so many 
possibilities for object transformation 
included with Cinema 4D, that giving 
you some sense of what is possible so 
that you will gain a degree of intuitive 
knowledge on what the controls are 
capable of requires a narrowing of 
your explorations. 

What I mean is that jumbling all of 
the controls at once (and this goes for 
any software you are trying to learn) 
may result in accidental nice graphics, 
but will give you zero retention rate 
when it comes time to repeat your 
tasks, I would suggest then that you 
play with just one option at a time in 
the control menus, keeping some 
records of what your tweaking 
produces. 

Choose a simple object, a cylinder 
or cube for instance. Deforming objects 
always takes notice of how complex, 
how many polys, are being operated 
on. Better results are achieved when 
there are more polys involved, since 
this means that the twists and turns of 
the new object will be seen as a 
smoother surface. 

Twisting an object with a mini- 
mum number of polys results in 
sharper edges overall, not that you 
might not require that on occasion. 
What 1 generally do to a primitive 
object is to make sure it is triangulated 
(polys become triangular surfaces) and 
then double the polys. This results in a 
better object to deform, twist, and 
bend. 

In Cinema 4D's Deformation 
controls, the first control parameter 1 
would like to suggest for experiment is 
the "Plane" controls. This toggleable 
list tells the software which plane or 
series of planes the effects will be 
applied to, and very different objects 




can result from the application of these 
options alone. The results of selected 
alterations in the planar option can be 
appreciated in Figure 5. 



axial, then all three axis can be 
numerically altered. I usually leave the 
"subdivisions" setting at its defaulted 
zero. 



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Crumple 

Crumple is really a special case of 
Deform, but with fewer options for 
targeted change. You can either apply 
a crumple effect radially or axially. If 
radial, then only one axis parameter, 
the X, can be numerically changed. If 



Crumples are great in an anima- 
tion, and can add that needed touch of 
realism to a piece of printed paper 
floating on the wind. Experiment and 
explore this setting at will, and also 
look at the results achieved in Figure 6. 



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and Planar. 1 Jiis effect tries its best to wrap a selected object into ttie chosen stiape, many times witti 
unexpected results when the object is a 3D one, as you can see from the way that this lathed object responds to 
the effects. A- Spherical, B-Cylindrical, C-Planar. The lathed object was wrapped on a star shaped polygon for 
the planar effect, resulting pretty much in a crumpled mess, but it animates interestingly. 



Wrap 

This effect is probably best 
applied to a plane or 2D poly object, 
since the aUerntions it produces on 3D 
objects is often strange, It does make 
for interesting animations, no matter 
the targeted object. A right mouse click 
on the effect brings up its requester 
where parameters can be altered. Make 
sure that all objects explored with this 



effect ha\'e had their polys subdi\'ided 
at least twice, resulting in smoother 
final renders. 

Conclusions 

Cinema 4D is far more extensiv^e 
in all areas than the few examples we 
have illustrated demonstrate. Hope- 
fully this will give you some sense of 
its po\ver, and also let vou know that 



Amiga development in the arena of 3D 
graphics is still continuing. Our next 
Cinema 40 tutorial will take a further 
look at C4D's capabilities. Enjoy! See 
you in KOMulnn .spfice. 

In the U.S., Cinema 4D (a HiSoft product 

from England) is distributed and 

supported by Oregon Research 

(603)620-4919 

orres@teleport.com 

•AC* 



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Web Typesetting 
Part 1: Introduction 



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The long stated prognostications 
have finally come true. The Internet 
has become a mainstream means of 
publishing and communicating. File 
transfers, remote programs. E-mail, 
home pages, newsgroups, list servers, 
video-conferencing, and much more 
are a reality over the Internet. 

Thousands of new subscribers 
come online every day. New home 
pages are added at an unbelievable 
pace. The biggest problem seems to be 
the ability of the communications 
companies to keep up with the 
bandwidth needed to handle the 
number of people online. Fortunately, 
they have been doing a pretty good job 
so far. 

The World Wide Web 

One of the fastest growing 
segments of the Internet is the World 
Wide Web or WWW for short. 
Currently, the WWW allows indi\'idu- 
als, businesses, organizations, educa- 
tional institutions, and whomever to 
create a textual and graphical, some- 
what multimedia, presentation tliat 
anyone with an Internet connection 
and Web browser software can access. 

Of course, with the currently 
available transfer speeds, it is not yet a 
true multimedia system. Rather, it is 
an infant in its crawling stage. How- 
ever, with higher transfer speeds 
(ISDN and cable access) and new file 
compression schemes, it will soon 



begin to pull itself up and start 
cruising along the edge of the couch. 
HopefuUv, bv the end of this millen- 
nium, it will be walking tall and 
beginning to run. 

Getting Connected 

There are essentially tvk'o ways to 
connect to the Internet, One is a direct 
comiection; the other is an indirect 
connection. The former requires you to 
purchase all the equipment necessary 
to connect with a communications 
company that offers Internet services. 
This can cost thousands of dollars up 
front and is therefore mostly limited to 
businesses and institutions. 

The indirect connection only 
requires purchasing a modem and 
coruiect time with an Internet Service 
Provider (ISP) who themselves have a 
direct connection into the Internet. 
This method is relati\'e!y inexpensive 
if vou already own a computer. To 
give you an idea of the cost, my name- 
brand 28.8 Kbps fax modem cost about 
$200 se\X'ra! months ago. Some off- 
brands with the same speed are now 
available for about SI 00. 

My local ISP has two basic levels 
of service available. The fir.st level is 
S9.95 per month and allows 10 hours 
of connect time. For each hour above 
10, 1 pay S0.95 per hour. This service 
also includes 10 MB of hard drive 
space for storing files or creating a 
personal home page. Space above 10 



MB costs SI .00 per MB per month. 
The second level of service from 

my local ISP is $24.95 per month. It 
provides a "common sense" unlimited 
access to the Internet as well as 
Linlimited disk space — within reason, 

I have heard that in some areas, 
major educational institutions offer 
unlimited access to the Internet for 
about S15. If you live in such an area, 
check it out. Just be aware that there 
are many different services available 
on the Internet and some ISPs may not 
offer all of these to their customers. 

My ISP has a mail server, a news 
server with all newsgroups available, 
an FTP server, a WWW server, a chat 
server, personal home page capabili- 
ties, an 800 modem number for out-of- 
town access (with a surcharge), backup 
numbers, and good tech support. They 
are also continually increasing the 
number of lines available so no one 
will ever get a busy signal when they 
try to connect. Just because a particular 
ISP is cheaper does not mean it is a 
better deal. It all depends on how you 
plan to use the service, 

Web Browsers 

There are many different Web 
browsers on the market. Unfortu- 
nately, as Rob Hayes said in his 
February 1996 column in AC, AMosaic 
is the only one currently available for 
the Amiga. Further, the Amiga 
AMosaic does not support some of the 



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PEOPLE. Rather, AMAZING COMPUTING FOR THE COMMODORE AMIGA. I 
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newer features available with browsers 
on other platforms, although some of 
these features will be .idded in future 
updates. 

The most advanced browsers are 
a\'ailable for PCs, Macintoshes, and 
Unix systems. The most popular 
browser by far is Netscape Nn\'ij;ntor. 
It is a multi-platform (but not .A.miga) 
product and is free for students and 
staff of academic instil utions and 
charitable non-pnifit organizations. 
For everyone else, it costs about $49. 
However, anyone can download the 
software and use it for 90 days before 
deciding to purchase it. 

Netscape has been praised by 
some and disparaged by others for 
offering featiu-es that are not \'et 
standardized and sometimes not c\'en 
on the drawing board for future 
Standardization. Netscape defends 
itself by saying that the standardiza- 



tion process is too slow and cannot 
keep pace ^vith customer demands. 

Microsoft is now giving Netscapie 
a run for their money. Its new Internet 
Explorer Web browser is totally free to 



custom features, it is still behind 
Netscape Navigator. 

Many other "free" Web browsers 
are available, but none are as feature 
laden as Netscape Navigator. Also, 



there are essentiaHy two ways to 

conr>ect to \he Internet. One is a 

direct connection; tt>e other is qn 

fndirect Qoonection. 



everyone. However, until recentlv, it 
was only available for Windows '95. It 
is now available for Windows 3.1 and 
Macintosh platforms in beta form. 
Although the Internet Explorer 
supports some of the newer browser 
features and has some of its own 



most online services such as America 
Online, CompuServe, I'rodigy, and 
others ha\-e their own Web browsers 
built into their access software. I am 
only familiar with America Online's 
browser and it is no match for either 
Navigator or Internet Expilorer. 



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Home Page Creation 

Now we get to the meat of what 
this series of articles will be aboiil: 
creating your own Web pages on the 
Internet for the world to see. In order 
to do this, you will have to have an 
account with an ISP that allows its 
customers to create Web pages and all 
the necessary programs for connecting 
to their server. (See Rob Hayes' On- 
Line Amiga Telecommunications 
column in the February 1996 issue of 
AC for comprehensive information on 
this topic.) 

Once this is taken care of, there 
are several software tools you will 
need. A text editor or word processor 
capable of saving ASCII text files, a 
graphics package capable of saving 
files in GIF or JPEG format (preferably 
both), an FTP program for transferring 
files to the ISP's server, and one or 
m.ore Web browsers for testing your 
Web pages. 

Web pages are created in HTML 
(HyperText Markup Language) 
format. HTML files are in ASCII 
format so they will be totally portable 
across computer platforms. An HT.VIL 
file contains the text that will appear 
on the Web page along with some 
special codes for formatting the text, 
referencing graphic files, and creating 
hypertext links to other documents. 
For anyone who has created 
AmigaGuide help files, this will be 
familiar. (See my article on CanDo 
programming in the March 1994 issue 
of y4C for information on creating 
AmigaGuide files.) 

In my next column, I will begin a 
tiitorial on creating HTML files for the 
WWW. Along the way, I will point out 
features that are not available in 
AMosaic since your target audience, as 
was mine, may be mostly Amiga users. 
I will use my own home page (Figure 
1) in the tutorial. 

Web Creation Tools 

Web creation tools for the Amiga 
are very slim, but are in abundance on 
other platforms. For this reason, 1 
currently produce my Web pages on a 
PC running Windows '95. 1 use an 
HTML tag editor, a graphics file 
conversion program that can write 



files in both GIF and JPEG formats and 
can read IFF files. In sonie cases, I use 
a WordPerfect add-in called Internet 
Publisher for saving WordPerfect files 
in HTML format. 

A tag editor is nothing more than 
a text editor that has an easy way of 
inserting HTML codes into the 
document, thus alleviating the user 
from typing them in. 1 know of no 
HTML tag editors on the Amiga. 
However, if you have an editor that 
allows macros to be created or 
supports ARexx, then you can build 
your own tag editor. I will discuss this 
more in a future article. 

If you would like to check this out 
now, vou can download an evaluation 
copy of HTML-Heaven from PKS 



probably heard, Amiga Technologies 
GmbH (http://wvvw.amiga.de) has 
already released a system called the 
Amiga Surfer in Germany. It should 
be available in North America soon. 

The hardware in the Amiga 
Surfer consists of an Amiga 1200 with 
2 MB of RAM and a hard drive, a 14.4 
Kbps fax modem, a telephone 
connection, and a power supply. The 
software consists of the Wordworth 
text processor, Datastore database, 
TurboCalc spreadsheet. Organiser 
personal organizer, and Personal Paint 
graphics program. Internet software is 
also provided in the form of a Pl'P 
driver, l-Net 225 TCP/IP stack, 
Mindwalker Web browser, VooDoo E- 
mail program with MIME support. 



Web pages are created in HTML (Hyperfe^ 

Markup Language) format. HTML files are in^ 

ASCII format so ttiey will be totally portgj^l.^ 

across computer platforms. 



MultiMedia Consulting at http:// 
www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/ 
heaven.html. It uses ARexx with many 
popular ARexx aware text editors for 
adding HTML tags to documents. This 
software is shareware. The registered 
version is S15 and adds several extras 
to the evaluation version. 

Since GIF and JPEG are the 
standard graphic file formats for Web 
browsers, they need to be used in your 
Web pages so everyone can view your 
pictures. Although it would be nice for 
the program you use for creating 
graphics to be able to save files in these 
formats, it is not absolutely necessary. 
Another program capable of convert- 
ing IFF files to GIF or JPEG can be 
used for this task. 

The Future of the Amiga and the 
Internet 

Although gathering all the tools 
together for browsing the Web, 
creating your own Web pages, and 
then getting them all to work on your 
Amiga is a daunting task, this may 
change in the near future. As you have 



AmFTP FTP program, AmIRC chat 
program, MultiTerm SE terminal 
program, and MultiFax Light faxing 
program. This package costs DM 1199 
(about S810). 

For people who already own a 
compatible Amiga, the Amiga Surf Kit 
containing the modem and the Internet 
software will be sold for DM 299 
(about S202). For those already owning 
a modem, the Amiga Surfware 
package containing onlv the Internet 
software will be .sold for DM 199 
(about $135). Watch this column for a 
future review of the Amiga Surfer 
package, comparing it to the software 
currently available on the PC platform. 

See vou soon. In the meantime, 
check out my home page at http:// 
fly.hiwaay.net/~rcfinch. I have all of 
mv past AC articles online there. My E- 
mail address is rcfinch@hiwaav.net. 



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Amiga 
»lecommunications 



Has Oregon Research created the ultimate 
Amiga telecommunications program or have 
j they just come close? 



Mention the word termite to a 
homeowner and watch their face 
blanch at the thought of huge extermi- 
nator bills. Mention the same word to 
an Amiga owner with a modem and 
watch their face light up with joy. 
While there still is the potential for a 
huge bill, it will be the result of many 
happy hours spent on the phone 
downloading files from BBS's. 

Termite from Oregon Research is 
the first commercial terminal program 
for the Amiga in too many years. 
Because of the proliferation of good 
public domain and shareware terminal 
programs, many Amiga users thought 



by Rob Hays 



this was a saturated market. However, 
with a street price very near the 
suggested shareware fee of many 
freely distributable programs. Termite 
has managed to make a home for itself. 

Supplied on a single floppy disk. 
Termite is installed with the use of the 
Commodore Installer utilit)'. Other 
requirements are OS2.04 or above, a 
Hayes-compatible modem, and a 
minimum of one megabyte of RAM. 

Termite is most certainly a full 
featured terminal program, including 
all of the features needed for modem 
tele-communicating: a phonebook to 
store the numbers of favorite systems. 



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At the start, Termite displays a button bar at the bottom of the screen. This row of 
icons gives one click access 1o ttie most commonly used functions of the program. 



and any special configuration settings 
they may require, review buffer to re- 
read text that may have already 
scrolled off the screen, the ability to 
transfer files between your Amiga and 
the host system, and more. In fact, 
there are \'ery few features that one 
could wish had been included. 

At the start, Termite displays a 
button bar at the bottom of the screen. 
This row of icons gives one click access 
to the most commonly used functions 
of the program. No need to fumble 
through the menus or try to remember 
hot-key combinations. Want to bring 
up the phonebook? Just click on the 
phonebook icon and up it pops. Don't 
care for the placement of the icons 
within the bar? Rearrangement is a 
matter of only a couple of mouse 
clicks. Prefer the buttons in a vertical 
line-up instead of the usual horizontal 
one? A single click makes the change. 
You can substitute your own artwork 
for any of those supplied for the 
buttons, and each button has its own 
editor available to help make alter- 
ations quick and easy. 

If I had to describe Termite in one 
word, that word would be flexible. The 
variations available with the button 
bar are just one example of this 
flexibility. Nearly every other aspect of 
the program's operation and appear- 
ance has the same sort of choices 



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flexibility is the need to configure all of 
these different options. While this can 
take some time to fine tune, most users 
w'M be able to get online with their 
local BBS's with the default settings. 
Scripts within Termite can range 
from simple to complex. A simple 
script to automate the login process 
can be generated with a menu choice. 
This ivill cause Termite to learn the 
procedures and write the script 
necessary to reproduce the required 
actions. From then on whenever 
Termite dials the phone number, your 
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users a complex, but (lexlble terminal package. 



More complex scripts and macro 
functions can be written to automate 
entire online sessions if you wish. 
With a vocabulary of 30 ARexx 
commands, virtually all of the func- 
tions of Termite, your modem, and 
your Amiga's serial port are control- 
lable through your sci'ipts. 

Termite has built-in terminal 
emulations for the ANSI and VT 102 
standards. Between thorn, these two 
emulations will probably work on 90% 
of the BBS's around. Also included 
with the program are three other 
emulations, and the ability to add 
many more. Transfer protocols include 
the popular Zmodem, and 
CompuServe's Quickti. As new 
terminal emulations and transfer 



protocols are developed, they can be 
added as standard XEM and XPR 
libraries, which insures Termite can 
continue to serve your terminal 
program needs for years to come. 

Termite's current version is 1 .1 , 
and it is much improved over the 
original, Oregon Research has a very 
liberal upgrade policy, and if you are 
still using version 1.0, 1 urge you to get 
the new one. They also maintain a 
presence on CompuServe, Genie, and 
the Internet for support and informa- 
tion. 

The manual is spiral bound and 
does a fine job describing the program 
and its use. The section on trouble- 
shooting is short but should solve most 
common problems. A quick reference 



Termite's 

current 

version Is 1.1, 

and it is 

much 

improved 

over ttie 

original. 



card illustrates the standard button bar 
icons along with their hot-key equiva- 
lents, and the file name of the artwork 
for that icon. 

Faults and Conclusions 

V^/ith the understanding that no 
program is perfect, there are a few 
minor items I would like to see 
changed in the next version. When 
setting the paths Termite uses, the 
gadget that brings up the standard 
Amiga file requester is a blank box 
instead of the standard graphic 
symbol. Also, during a download there 
is no indication of remaining space on 
your destination drive. An indication 
of free space could be a real help 
during long downloads to already 
packed drives. Finally, when you call 
up the on-line help, you get either a 
table of contents or an alphabetical 
index of topics available. The addition 
of context-sensitive help would be a 
welcome enhancement. 

The minor nature of my sugges- 
tions is a tribute to Termite's program- 
mers. If you are still limping along 
with an old terminal program, you 
owe it to yourself to check out Termite. 

Termite 1.1 S49.95 

Oregon Research 

16200 S.W. Pacific Hwy, 

Suite 162 

Tigard. OR 97224 

(503)620-4919 

FAX (503) 624-2490 

Internet: orres@teleport.com 

Genie: ORA 

CIS: 71333,2655 

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Super Derise 8373 v;/diagnostic disk .Si9.95 

Gary 5719 „ S10.95 

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B8000-8HHZ CPU S13.50 

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Super Dense (391554-01) ,529.96 

5571 KeytKiard Ctiip (391079-01) $14.50 

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Paula 8364 (391077-01) 527,95 

Gary (390540-021 S32.95 

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Brrfgette (331380-01) 534 50 

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A50O (Rev. 5,'6) with Super Donise 589 50 

A500+ Revision 8A 1WB boartl'aH chips 569-95 

A600 S1 1 7.00 

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1541 Alps (15000401) S17.95 

1571 Newlromcs (310420-01) S17.95 

AMIGA FLOPPY DRIVES (Faclory Hew) 

A1010/1 1 ene,rral 3.5 drive S69.95 

1541 Ireluroished) 544.50 

1 541 II External S74.50 

1571 (limned quantity) 599.95 

1581 Ihterr^al Dnveonly 321.50 

High Dens (Dell) Ext. Iloppy lor all Amtgas ,5114-95 

A60(l/1200 Intemil 559.95 

A500 lnlc-iii.^1 „ „ .,-538 95 

A2000lnlernat S49.95 

A3000 Internal 549.95 

IDE cable A600/A1200 56,50 



POWER SUPPUES {Factory New) 

C64 nonrepairabte S14.95 

C64 repairalble -- , , „- S19-95 

CM 5.2 amp Hv. Duty (also 1 7S0 REU) 539.95 

C65 220 Volts 512 50 

C12BD Ihlernal 524.95 

C12B axlernal &2 amps - S39.95 

1541 11/1581 (linitBd quantity) 59,95 

A500 538,95 

A590 S24.9S 

A50O,'A60O/A120O Big Ft, (ZMlWall) Micro WD, ,579,95 

CD32 Otijinal / Factory (1 10 volts) S21.95 

CD3a Original / Factory (220 volls) S14 95 

CD32 Big Foot (2O0 Wan) M«n) R,D 574 50 

A2000 110,'220V irternal original 589 95 

A2000 Big Foot {300 Waltl Mcro fVD 5144 50 

A30OO internal {110/220 volts) S99 95 

A30D0 Big Foot (300 watts) Micro R/D $144,50 

A3000 Tower $124,00 

A4000 internal (220 volts) $99.95 

A4000 ml, 110 volts Big Fool (300 VKatt) 5199-95 

1084SP Phillips Flyback Transfeirrner 534,95 

1084,01 Phillips/Daewoo Flyback $34,50 

10B4-D2 Daewoo Flyhack Transformer - $34,50 

1084 (S) Motherboard (refurbished) $69,95 ' 

1084 [S| Power Supply board (returb.) ,,,529,95 



KEYBOARDS (Factory New) 

CS4 - .,„„ 517 95 

C65 (Special Keybo^d),..,,.- .„„ $19,95 

A500 $39,95 

A600 , $26,50 

C12BD $24,95 

AUOO , . , $34,95 

A2000 (U,S,wr,) KKQ E94YC/ 312716-02 S«9,95 

A3000 (US- versioil) $75,95 

A4000 599,95 

CDTV Slack {U,S, version) $52,95 

CD32 Black, $39,95 

ADD ON BOARDS (Factory New) 

A3ie (25MH:| Bridgeboird ISW Instr. $279,95 

A386 (20MHI) Bndgeboard iSW /Instr $259,95 

A205a (I»<1 (A2000I Eipansion board $69-95 

A2059 2 Megs Expansion board (A2000} „„S 1 2^,95 
2091 Hard Disk Controller OK new ROM 589,95 



A501 original Ram Exp - 512K (A500I 519,95 

AS90 oxlcrnal A5X) Ccntr, [no lid] wfUi p/s 5169,95 

A590 HD controller, latest ROMs. 

2MB RAM. 100MB HjD, Power Supply 5369,95 

ICD Tntecia 500 EC; IDE hard tlnwe 15 bit t^ntroller. up 
tog mogsolfasi BAM. space Icr hard drive. ,5159,95 

ICD Ad Ram 540 (OKI up to 4MB $69,50 

ICD Ad RAM 540 (A500) w/ 4 Megs $267,50 

ICD Ad RAM 510*1 MB (or A500+ $59,95 

100 AD SCSi 20OO $89,50 

ICD AD Speed , $99,95 

ICD Flicker Free Video $248.95 

Microwav Flickertixer $224,00 

Slingshot Prtj'pass Ihrc (Micro R/D) $39,95 

AtOSO RAM Eipander {A1000) 25dK $10,95 

01750 REU RAH 51 2K Eip,.board - {no case) ,$17,95 
A30OO Daughter Board .,.,.,$32-95 

MISCELLANEOUS 

A2000 (returbished) complete/keyboard $399.00 

SX1 Expansion Module ,,$199.95 

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A2000 Original Service Manual S19.95 

A600 Complete System 5239.95 

Video Enhancer Plus lor the CD32 519,95 

CD32 Network: CD ROM/cable 553.75 

VGA 15-23 pir RGB Adapter {39O6B2-01 )...$19.9S 
A2000 Kevtoard Adapler to A4000 $8.95 

A520 (New) Video Modulator' 
Adapter kil/cables/inslructions- ,„„.„$13,95 

RFmoduialor- PAL oniy {313371-05) 813,00 

Monitors 1084, etc, Relurbished CALL 

CBM 1351 Mouse (C64/C126) ,,,$19,95 

Amiga 1352 Mouse $22,50 

Amiga Mouse pon replacement kit $7,95 

Amiga CDTV Mouse $15,95 

1352 Amiga mouse by Mic/o R&D $22,50 

Wizard 3-bLitlon mouse for all Amigas,,,,,, 522,95 

C032 controller $11-76 

CD32 CO Replacement Drive S39,95 

Rom Swilch ■ (Switch Itt) with speaker 517,50 

Advanced Arnica Analyzer |10,000 sold) 569,95 

Amiga Diagnostician Trouble Shooter Guide,,, ,57,95 

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• AS01 original CBM 512KB Memory Expansion Card with clock, 
calendar/battery for A500 computers. Includes instructions and 
warranty, S19.95 

• A520 Video Modulator Adapter Kit with cables arid instructions 
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Comparative shopping for the 

QPr-JJiin^ s^^vi^es. 



This month we will take a hrenk from 
surfing the Web to catch up on some 
odds and ends. 

New Rates At Genie 

On January 24, the GEnie network 
was sold to YouvelU? Renaissance 
Corporation. This is a division of IDT, 
which is an east coast Internet access 
provider. Wasting little time, the new 



February 1 tlie rates changed from 
$8.95 per month with four hours of 
usage included, to $18.95 per month 
with nine hours included. Extra hours 
are billed at the S2.75 rate. While this is 
a large increase it can be somewhat 
justified by the inclusion of more hours 
and a lower rate for extra hours. 

What cannot be justified is the 
manner in which it was handled. Users 






owners announced a new service 
named GenieNet with a host of new 
features, including full PPP/SLIP 
connections for graphical Web 
browsers. They also announced a new 
rate structure. 

If you choose to join the new 
GenieNet, you are charged a flat $29 
per month for unlimited Internet 
access at speeds up to 28.8kbps. Time 
spent on the existing Genie system 
would be billed at $2.75 per hour. On 
the other hand, if you choose to remain 
with the original service, effective 



were given at most a few hours 
warning before the new rates went 
into effect. If you happened to be on 
line late in the evening of January 31, 
you had the opportunity to read about 
the new rates before they took affect 
the next morning. To add further 
injury to many budgets, Youvclle 
announced a change in the way 
charges would be calculated. This 
meant two charges to users' credit/ 
checking accounts for February. One 
charge for the January usage under the 
old system, plus a charge for February 



under the new system. 

All of this has angered many 
users, and has prompted many of 
them to leave Genie. It remains to be 
seen what the long term results of 
these actions will be on the network. 

One small change made by the 
new owners had an unexpected result. 
They changed the name from "GEnie" 
to "Genie". This small change caused 
the automated terminal program 
Aladdin to stop at the opening screen. 
Many users reported starting the 
program and coming back later to find 
they were still connected, with none of 
their me.ssages collected for reading. 
Some joked that was one way to use 
up some of the new extra hours. 

Tim Purves, who has done an 
excellent job over the years with 
Aladdin, got busy and updated the 
program to allo'iv for the name change. 
If you haven't already done so, be sure 
to download the new version 1.84c. 

Comparison Shopping 

How do the new Genie rates 
compare to other services? On 
CompuServe, the standard member- 
ship is $9.95 per month, u'ith five 
hours included, and additional hours 
S2-95. Or for S24.95 per month, you get 
20 hours with additional hours at 
$1.95. 

On Delphi, there are also two 
pricing plans available. The first is $10 
per month with four hours included 



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and additional hours priced at S4 per 
hour. The second is S20 per month, 
with 20 hours included, and extras 
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extra $3 per month for either plan. 

Portal is a flat $19.95 per month 
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For More Information 

Here are the phone numbers for 
the various systems if you would like 
to call for more information, 
CompuServe 800-848-8199 
Delphi 800-695-4005 

Genie 800-638-9636 

Portal 800-433-6444 

Who Ya Gonna Call? 

Here are some more Amiga BBS's 
you might want to call. 
NAME: The Catacomb 
PHONE: 504-882-6576 
SPEEDS: 2400-28,800 bps 
CONTACT: Geoff Sloan 



NAME: Mystic Places 
PHONE: 504-641-6868 
SPEEDS: 2400-14,400 bps 
CONTACT: Don Talbot 

NAME: Mike's Video House 
PHONE: 818-240-1593 
SPEEDS: 1200-36,600 bps 
CONTACT: Mike Moon 

NAME: The Benchmaster's BBS 
PHONE: 408-238-5885 
SPEEDS: Up to 14,400bps 

Where To Find Me 

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R,Hays5 on GEnie 

RHAYS on Delphi 

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Rob Hays on Portal 

For U.S.Mail: 
Rob Hays 
P.O.Box 194 
Bloomington, IN 47402 



Please include a SASE if you need 
a personal reply. 

If you run an Amiga specific BBS, 
send me the information callers will 
need to access your system. Phone 
nuinber(s), modem speeds, software 
settings, etc. As a service to the Amiga 
community I will include the informa- 
tion I receive in this column from time 
to time. 

If you come across any World 
Wide Web sites you feel would be of 
interest to the Amiga community, pass 
them along for inclusion in the Hotlist 
of the Month. Send the info to any of 
my addresses above. 

That's all for now. Next month it 
is back lo the Net in a multitasking sort 
of way. See you on line! 



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April 1996 



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Petro 
Tyschtschenko 

ESCOM announces record losses, Amiga 

Technologies changes distribution structure, 

One man is In the center of all this activity to 

keep Amiga strong, spend an afternoon with 

AT'stop exec. 



Interview in/ Don Hicks 




New York City in the winter is just like 
New York City in the spring and summer. 
Instead of hot and busy, its cold and busy. 
This Sundtiy afternoon it was no different. 
New York is one of the most exciting cities 
in the world, however, if vou are only there 
for a few hours, you tend to miss the 
intricacies of its nature and see only what it 
offers superficially. 

1 was traveling to the Big Apple to 
meet with Petro Tyschtschenko, President 



AmiEXPO in the Sheraton Towers just 
across the street. 

That sho\v had been the starting place 
for a lot of good Amiga companies. 1 could 
not help \s'ondering if this was an omen and 
we wore on the edge of a new beginning for 
the Amiga. 

In a fe^v short minutes, Mr. 
Tyschtschenko came moving in with energy 
and charm. He vvelcomed us all, quickly 
apologized for the delay. 



One of its major problems is 
that ESCOIVI has never hod a loss. 
Never in its history has ESCOM 
reported a loss. 



of Amiga Technologies. My Publisher, boss, 
and wife, Joyce Hicks, was also traveiing 
with me this trip. We had made the three 
hour drive (the traffic and roads had been 
exceptionally clear this cold winter 
morning) into the cit\' to meet \\'ith Mr. 
Tyschtschenko and discuss the latest plans 
of Amiga Technologies. There had been a 
lot going on lately, but little news had been 
a\'ailable to the North Americans. 

As we waited for Mr. Tyschtschenko 
in an executive lounge on the fifteenth floor 
of the Sheraton Manhattan, Joyce and I 
discussed the last lime we were in the hotel. 
It had been in October of 1987. We had just 
completed the u'orld's first Amiga show. 



As I adjusted my tape recorder for the 
meeting, I wondered if my equipment 
would pick up the soft, German accented 
\'oice of this genuinely excited man who 
insisted that we call him Petro. ! wondered 
quickly to myself if 1 would be so enthusias- 
tic if I had been in charge of the Amiga's 
reco\'ery for almost a year. A year in which 
he was not only responsible to rebuild the 
Amiga 1200 and A4000 Tower from 
deserted plans and very few left over parts, 
but also the dealer network and distribution 
channel of a destroyed and looted Commo- 
dore. And yet, while he had accomplished 
both, he was still faced with challenges both 
within and outside of his control. 



AC: We have heard that there are a lot of 
changes going on at Amiga Technologies. Is 
there anything that vou can tell us? 
Petro: We have reorganized our distribu- 
tion in North America. Qiiikpak has been 
assembling our boards for the Amiga 4000 
Towers for shipment to Eu rope. They have 
also been completing the assembly of the 
A4000 Towers for distribution in North 
America. 

Quikpak will now become our master 
distributor in .North .'\merica. Thev will 
continue to export .^4000 Tower 
motherboards to Europe for final assembly 
there, but they will aiso supply distributors 
in North America with machines in 
quantities of fifty or more. Quikpak will 
now take care of Ihis market. They will do 
the marketing and adveriising in North 
America. 

At the same time SMG, \\'ho u-as our 
previous exclusive distributor in North 
•America, will remain with their special 
knowledge. They are important in their 
ability to handle repair.s, telephone hot 
lines, etc. SMG remains an important part 
of our effort here in North America, 
hoive\-er they will continue to concentrate 
on the things they do exceptionally well. 
AC: Until now we ha\-e seen absolutely no 
marketing or advertising in North America. 
Will this change? 

Petro: Quikpak promised me that they will 
make a special deal so they can spend some 
money on marketing and advertising. 

They will create packaging, special 
hardware assemblies with CD ROM drives, 
and other promotions. They will also 



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discuss hiiw they can markc't Ihu A 1 200 in 
North Anu'ricn. 

AC: Will Quikpnk be able to bring Amiga 
1200s to North America? 
Petro: Thuy said yes. The Amiga Surfer is 
already available in Germany. It has a 14.4 
modem — of course you can use a 28000 
Baud modem with the software. The 
problem is, of course, to sell this technoiof^y 
you need to address some problems. 
Advertising is of course very expensive. 
Amiga Technologies is 100% dependent on 
ESCOM for our marketing dollars. 

And KSCOM is currently not in the 
best shape. They are troubled (ust as 
Packard Bell is in the United States. The 
business in PCs over the last quarter was 
terrible. ESCOM is a public company, they 
have 2,200 employees, they have revenue of 
DM 2.3 billion, but the margin on the PC is 
very low and the Christmas quota was 
terrible. 

ESCOM announced in Januar\' a loss 
of 45 million Duetschmarks, which is S30 
million. Last week, ESCOM's stock trading 



ESCOM's PC business was nlso hit 
hard. The development on the Intel chips 
has been dramatic. Look at the la.st one and 
a half years, you have the Pentium 60, the 
Pentium 75, the Pentium 9{), the Pentiinn 
ion, the Pentium 120, the Pentium 13.\ the 
Pentium 150, and now the Pentium IdO. 
This is all in 12 to 14 months. It is unbeliev- 
able. This is also an issue as to why Packard 
Bell is ha\'ing difficulties. 

The PC market is drowning in 
product. After years of high sales, the 
market turned down and there is product 
galore. E\'er\'onc must write-off Ihe losses. 
They cannot sell it. There is no cash flow on 
such things. This is a situation which has to 
be .solved and w'hich will be soh'ed. The 
share holders are standing behind ESCOM 
in this. They have issueci a press release. 
The press release came out on Friday. 
AC: For the North American market, how 
will the addition of Quikpak change things? 
Petro: Quikpak will serve all the distribu- 
tors who are ordering 50 units or more. 
Dealers will be served bv the distributors. 



move a much larger volume of units. 

Quikpnk currently assembles the 
Amiga 40t)0 tower in the US and supplies 
the European market with the mother 
board which is assembled there. Quikpak 
also purchases some components in the US 
which I cannot buy in Europe because they 
are so much cheaper to purchase here than 
in Europe, 

I believe they have the capability to 
put in CD ROM drives, or not to assemble 
units with hard dri\es, or to !ower the price 
for special configurations, to create units 
without simms, thev can do special things 
with software packages from a marketing 
point of view. There are things they will 
need to do. They need to find distributors 
riot only in the Amiga community, but also 
outside. They need to bring in fresh blood. 
They need to search for additional markets 
for the Amiga. 

AC: Ha\'e you heard anything more about 
VVondcr Computers in Canada? 
Petror Tliey called me and told me about 
the problem. Thev had ordered 500 units of 



Yes, What we have to do is produce some margin 

to do some marketing, If we lower the price. I 

believe we will not sell anymore units — I must use 

my margin for marl<eting and advertising. 



was suspended. The reason behind this was 
that the the original DM 45 million was in 
error and that the real loss was DM 125 
million. 

AC: Was the loss due to ESCOM's large 
acquisition of retail stores in the UK and the 
downturn of the busiiiess in PCs? 
Petro: Of course, plus ESCO.M spent a lot of 
money on the Amiga deal and the ramp-up 
required to get the first Amigas built. Plus 
the Christmas quota on PCs was bad. All of 
these facts came together and hurt them, 

The solution is to continue the Amiga 
business. The main share holders have said 
they will invest an additional DM 100 
million. This will help them, it will make 
them healthy, but it is still tough. 

ESCOM has to find ways to cut their 
costs. They are rethinking about how they 
will strategize the PC in the market and 
how thev will distribute it. 

The reason ESCOM stock trading was 
stopped was that the wrong amount of 
losses were first forecast. Because they are 
in the retail business, they were hit with 
additional things like inventory. 

One of its major problems is that 
ESCOM has never had a loss. Never in its 
history has ESCOM reported a loss. 1 don't 
have ail the answers but IBM is troubled 
and Apple Computer is having its problem. 



AC; The dealers will no longer be limited to 
a minimum of 10 units and pay in advance? 
Petro: Dealers will no longer be required to 
buy ten units at a time. Quikpak is really 
reliable, they have a lot of ideas. They sent 
us a marketing plan early on in their 
negotiations. 

SMG is a very good partner. They are 
extremely successful with their help line, 
scn'icc, and maintenance. On the marketing 
side, Amiga Technologies needed a partner 
with a little more experience and Quikpak 
had a lot of %'ery good ideas. 
AC: Is Amiga Teclinologies working on 
anything to decrease the price of the Amiga 
4000 Towers? 

Petro: [ think, to be honest, that if we 
decrease the price, we will not sell any 
more units than we are selling no\%'. 
AC: Because vou see the demand for the 
Amiga 4000 Tower as a niche market? 
Petro: Yes. What we have to do is produce 
some margin to do some marketing. If we 
lower the price, I believe we wili not sell 
anymore units — I must use my margin for 
marketing and advertising. 

1 am doing this to create a push-pull 
distribution. The distribtitors push the units 
into the market and the advertising creates 
demand i\ith the customers who pull the 
product out of the dealers. Then we will 



the A4000 Tower. We built them and then 
they went bankrupt. Amiga Technologies 
was not hurt, but the Amiga Community 
was hurt. There is now one company less, 
AC; Not only did Wonder Computers have 
five stores in Canada, but they were also 
distributors and developers of several 
useful products. 

Petro: Yes, they were an active Amiga 
company. They even had plans for 
distribution in India. I talked with them 
when 1 was at the World of Amiga in 
Toronto this last December and I supported 
them. 

1 have been told that they will come 
back. They are arranging additional 
financing through their in\'estors. Tliey 
should be back sometime in the March time 
frame. 

AC: You remain committed to the US 
market? 

Petro: I will not walk out on the North 
American market. We have a good business 
with New Zealand, Australia, and India. 
We are not big in masses but it is impres- 
sive. We are doing well in Germany. We 
reached our goal in Germany. 

We would have done as well in the 
UK, but a major retailer, who ordered 
35,000 units, went bankrupt. Before, the UK 
was 40% of our market. This time thev did 



April 1996 



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not match that. But, I huve new pet^ple in 
that market. I have a new distributor. While 
the original Great Britain market was 
disappointing, we have new distribution, 
cliannels opening up, and we expect to once 
again meet our goals. 

Our Gorman sales were right on the 
mark. And now, with the changes we are 
incorporating here, we expect our US sales 
to also increase. 

Quikpak will start the marketing 
campaign. They will not only advertise in 
the Amiga community but they will also 
advertise in other markets. They are going 
to create noise. 

AC: How soon will this occur? 
Petro: They begin tomorroiv with the 
distribution of the Amiga. They will start 
shortly after that with their marketing 
coverage. 

This is another reason I don't think it 
will be smart to lower the pricing of the 
Amiga nou' because people will get the 
wrong idea. The)' will believe that we aren't 



1 would like to sell the Amiga Surfer to 
a ivider market in Europe, but 1 need to 
advertise outside the Amiga marketplace 
and ESCOM's current position makes any 
additional expenditLires incredibU' difficult. 

1 have a problem with the price of the 
surfer package. It is not that I am making a 
large margin on the A1200, it is because my 
costs are so high. 1 would like to sell the 
A1200 on the US market for S400 or S500. 
However, the Amiga Surfer package 
includes the modem, the software, and the 
A1200 and it has a street price in Germany 
of SSOO. Tliis is with a 260MB hard disk 
drive, 2MB standard RAM, and also the 
software. 

AC: Is that really a problem with Oracle 
announcing a product for the internet that 
will not store text — it has no storage 
capability. It sells for $500 and ail it does is 
allow people to channel surf the net. 
Petro: We have a problem with the balance 
of the market. Our Amiga is a brilliant 
machine for animation, video, multimedia. 



that they can move 10,000 units. 
AC: No one on this side of the Atlantic has 
the autonomy to offer that commitment. 
You arc asking one person to make a 
commitment and then everyone else hangs 
onto their coat tails. 

Petro: You are right. 1 am looking for such 
an individual because, at this moment, 
Amiga Technologies cannot afford to fund 
this. 

AC: Where is Amiga Technologies going in 
the way of future products? 
Petro: Power PC. This is what we have 
announced and nothing has changed. It has 
improved recently because we have had 
very good meetings with Motorola. It looks 
good. We are getting 150'!'.. support from 
Motorola. 1 really appreciate their activities. 
AC: You have said you are on schedule for 
the Power PC. Do you have a schedule that 
you can tell us for the PowerPC Amiga? 
Petro: Yes, we will come out with the 
PowerPC Amiga in the Spring of '97. 
However, we will have an enhanced A1200 



We have a problem with the balance of the market. 

Our Amiga is a brilliant machine for animation, video, 

multimedia, sound, and other things. But, if you offer 

the Amiga for internet use, you have to compete with 

a PC and you can buy a PC in Europe for around $800. 



making the sales. They vvill belief's that u'e 

will just start dumping the machine and 

this is not so. 1 believe we need the pricing 

to create the marketing dollars to promote 

the Amiga. 

AC: .-Alright, but some believe that if they 

are going to pay this much for the Amiga, it 

should bo configured uith more. Will the 

configuration be changed? 

Petro: Quikpak will think aixnit this and 

they will do this. They kinnv the North 

American market lietter than we do. Due to 

the concerns over ESCOVI, we will not be 

able to put more money into this market at 

this time. 

AC; Is the Internet as strong in Europe as it 

is becoming in the US? 

Petro: 1 believe there are some problems 

with fees. The telephone connection over 

there can become quite expensive. 

There arc some computer coffee shops 
that have been offering internet access for a 
set fee as you drink your coffee. We aj-e 
seeing more and more of the internet. 
Everyone is putting their web site informa- 
tion in their advertisements. You constantly 
see the addresses "www.whatever.com." 
This is showing up all over. 

People in Europe are still hesitating. In 
Germany, there is 4 million unemployed. 



soimd, and other things. But, if you offer 
the Amiga for internet use, you have to 
compete with a PC and you can buy a PC in 
Europe for around SSOO. This is with 8MB 
of RAM , 540 MB or 850 MB hard disk 
drive, and a CD ROM. So if you compare 
the two machines, we have no CD ROM, 
only 2MB, and a 260 MB hard drive. 
AC: But the Windows memory require- 
ments are exceptionally higher than the 
Amiga's. 

Petro: We know this, but we now need to 
convince the marketplace of this. At the 
same time, the PC market is selling Pentium 
60s cheaply to clear their inventories. 

The internet package with the A1200 is 
something special which is better than the 
PC. I believe we can sell a lot of bundles or 
just the software packages to the Amiga 
community. 

i have no problem bringing the Amiga 
internet system to the US. But, 1 must buy 
the special NTSC parts which will create a 
probiein for me if I do not sell enough units. 
Because I do not only have the investment 
of the parts, but I then have the assembled 
NTSC boards which will cost me a fortune. 

I cannot have 10,000 pieces in 
inventory. When I ask for a commitment, 
nobody in the US can give me a guarantee 



with a built-in CD ROM drive and 
additional memory, a modem, possibly an 
O.SO processor, a separate keyboard, and 
possibly the ability to put in accelerator and 
expansion boards. 
AC: That sounds like an AGA 2000. 
Petro: Right. 1 will show this machine on 
March 15th at the Hanover Faire at CEBIT. 
We will launch the machine in September. 
There are still some unannounced features 
to this machine that should bring it into a 
whole new realm of markets and productiv- 
ity. 

I am going to keep this Amiga's price 
as small as possible when we bring it out. 
We will only sell a small percentage in the 
Amiga community because I believe wo 
will use this to show the rest of the world 
what an Amiga can do. We will use this 
machine to compete in the PC commimity. 

It would be my dream if this machine 
was a full PowerPC Amiga that we could 
deliver in September, but it is impossible. 
The difficult part of this is the port of the 
Amiga operating system. It will take at least 
another year to port the Amiga operating 
system to the PowerPC. 

We will also soon have our 124 1 which 
is a CD ROM drive. This should have 
already been available in December, but 



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the first units available in March. 
AC:In Europe, but do you have plans to 
tiring the A 1241 here? 
Pelro: If 1 have an NTSC A1200 selling in 
North America, then 1 will bring the A1241 
here. 

We are strategizing on how this can be 
accomplished. It is possible that 1 couid 
import A1200 P-^L units to Quikpnk and 
they could rework the units to NTSC A1200 
as needed. If I produce NTSC units, I ivill 
have a stockpile, but if I keep the produc- 
tion units in PAL, then 1 will not have an 
inventory problem and I will be able to 
.ser\'ice the Amiga market. 
AC: Are you ready to answer some rumors? 
According to "unnamed sources" you are 
no longer in charge at Amiga Tcclinologics. 
So, what are you doing here? 
Petro:( Laughing) So, you see I have no job 
anvmore. Really, who told voii this? 



technology, the chip set, and the operating 
system. They will begin supplying product 
in September. They will create TV set-top 
boxes first for France becanse they already 
have a customer in France. They will 
continue in Germany, the UK, and so forth. 

I ha\'e also been able to generate 
monei.' for .■\mig.i Technologies (hrough our 
licensing agreements. The deal \vith 
VisiCorp is verv good, it not onh' pushes 
the Amiga technology into other markets, 
but it pays for itself too. 

I have made an additional deal with a 
company that is using Amiga technology to 
do sonagram.s. Thev are using the A4000 
but I am not allox^•ed to release their name 
because of their competition. They are 
licensed because they would like lo 
produce their own boards based on the 
Amiga technology. This has been very 
successful. 

There are other companies who are 
interested in licensing. I have had discus- 
sions u'ith people concerning home 



ers are looking at the Amiga to port PC 

software lo the Amiga. Motorola contacts 

us nearly every day. 

AC: You feel there is still a real strong 

market for the Amiga. 

Petro; Yes, 1 think so. I think there is a 

market, but we cannot survive as we have 

survived through the first half year. But 

this was clear from the beginning. I gave 

myself tliree months for the ramp-up 

production. I matched this. 

We have had A1200s since the 
middle of September in Europe. We sold 
from the middle of September to the end 
of December 3.5,000 units and 10,000 
monitors. Which 1 think is tremendous 
c\'en if U'e expected more. 
AC: What marketing have you been able 
to do in Germany? 

Pelro: We have a lot of plans af Amiga 
Technologies, there are a lot of things that 
we want to do. 

In Germany we have put together a 
Road Show for the Amiga. The road show 



we will have an enhanced A1200 with a built-in 
CD ROM drive and additional memory, a 

modem, possibly an 030 processor, a separate 

keyboard, and possibly the ability to put in 

accelerator and expansion boards, 



AC; It was just a rumor. 
Petro: In Bensheim ive have hvo people 
who are running the company. One is Mr. 
Domeyer who is responsible for the finance 
and I am responsible for the sales. Mr. 
Domeyer has been doing a lot of the 
strategy as well and he is running the 
Motorola meetings. I am in the meetings, 
but 1 spend my time listening to what he is 
doing, maybe this is why people think 1 am 
no longer in charge. But, I have my 
responsibilities. I am fighting with ESCOM 
for marketing money. 

I must rmpro\'e our French market, 
thev ha\'e been hurt bv the old Commo- 
dore. In addition I must do translations. We 
have 11 languages in Europe. 

Quelle has been very successful with 
our products. In just this year they have 
purchased 1500 units. I am very proud of 
this. Thev are all sold out. Thev have a 
picture in their catalogue and the customer 
can mail order it. It has been \'ery success- 
ful. 

AC; Hoiv \vell are the licensing deals 
developing? 

Petro; Very well. VisiCorp signed their deal 
in December. VisiCorp signed a three year 
licensing agreement for the Amiga 



shopping and home banking people \\'here 
we could sell 100,000 units. 
AC; Would this be set-top boxes? 
Petro: .No, the Amiga 1200 because you can 
attach it to a TV and you can use it 
immediately. It is much better. The cost is 
inexpensive, you do not need a hard disk 
dri\'e, you have a keyboard console — vou 
can communicate easily. 

Then we are making a video package 
because I remember our basic value. You 
will be able to put a \'ideo camera with the 
Amiga. With the .(^miga it is \'er\' easy. You 
have SC.-^LA and other sofhvare remedies. 1 
xvant to bring out a video bundle that I can 
place in photoshops and other non-Amiga 
channeis. Wc will be able to place it in the 
photoshop and say that this is a video 
machine that xvill help edit your videos. 

I would also like to make a game 
bimdle. Why not, we are \'ery good in 
graphics. We could create a bundle with an 
Amiga 1200 and a hundred .Amiga games in 
a box. 

I am also talking with software houses 
that are now getting interested because we 
are back. Tliey arc asking me how many 
units we are selling. Software developers 
are also contacting us. Several PC develop- 



started on February fourth and will 
continue until March fifth, this Tuesday. 
The show has traveled to eight cities in 
Germany. We hold the e\'ents at a hotel 
and invite dealer.^;. This has been a great 
way to mobilize the dealers. We sign 
them up and then set them up with a 
starting order of two Amiga surfer 
packages, two A 1200s, and t%vo monitors 
so they can begin demonstrating the 
Amiga right awav. 

We ha\'e also had a campaign with 
McDonalds. There is a special fiver that 
goes in all of the McDonalds — 600 to 650 
stores. The flyer has an Amiga 1200, an 
Amiga 4000 tower, and a surfer package 
to win by sending in a postcard. 

We will occupy three booths at the 
Hanover show for CEBIT, ESCOM. 
Motorola, and MicroVitek, the compan\' 
who has developed our A14.'?8 monitors. 
AC: What would vou want to say to the 
Amiga community in the US? 
Petro: Buy Amiga, dc\elop software, and 
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